Elevating coal-truck



A. KUK'IELSKI. ELEVATING. COAL TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-Z6, I919 Patented June 21, 1921.

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IN VE N TOR .A TTORNEYS A. KUKIELSKI.

ELEVATING COAL TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.26, I919 v I 1,382,428. Patented June 21, 1921.

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A TTORNEYS A. KUKIELSKF.

ELEVATLNG COAL TRUCK. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 1919.

Patented June 21, 1921.

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ANTON KUKIELSKI, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J 19 21 1921,

Application filed November 26, 1919. SerialNo. 340,806.

7 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON KUnlnLsnI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Elevating Coal-Truck, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to a coal vehicle and more particularly is intended for embodiment in an automobile coal truck.

The general objects of the invention are to provide a vehicle of the indicated class having a body adapted to be raised or lowered by parallel movement, to provide effective means for raising or lowering the body, and to provide an elevating body having an arrangement of discharge chutes adapted to discharge the coal either longitudinally of the vehicle or laterally, together with means to control the flow of coal to said chutes.

The above and other objects as will appear are attained by the novel features and arrangement of parts hereinafter particularly described and defined in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of one example of the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a coal truck embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional plan view on the line 2-2, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on an enlarged scale on the line 3-3, Fig. 1;

Fig. 4c is a rear end view, the running gear and other parts being omitted;

Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 5 -5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is an inverted sectional plan view, the section being indicated by the line 6-6, Fig. 1;

Fig. 7 is a y- In carrying out my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, the truck is provided with a suitable frame having side bars 10 and cross bars 11, one of which is shown in Fig. 4:, said cross bars supporting wheels 12 on which a suitable framework 13 is erected to provide for supporting bearings and other parts as will appear.

A lifting body 1 1 is adapted to have parallel vertical guided movement, the gulde means comprising members 15 on the body reduced top plan view of the at the four corners at the under side, projecting beyond the body and having a slidmg engagement with guide standards 16, preferably of angle iron, rigid with frame 13, said standards being disposed at the corners and being strengthened by suitable braces 17 and top cross bars 17 For raising and lowering the body the latter is provided with depending racks 18 adjacent to the corners and said racks are in mesh with pinions 19 on transverse shafts 20 disposed near the front and rear of the frame 13. Advantageously, the lower ends of the racks 18 when lowered are received in protective housings 21 rigid with the frame 13 and depending therefrom. In order to raise or lower the body manually or by power from the vehicle motor, use is made in the illustrated example of the following means: The transverse shafts 20 are provided with worm wheels 22 engaged by worms 23 on a longitudinal shaft 24: turning in suitable bearings 25 on the frame 13. For the manual turning of the shaft 2 1 the same is shown as having a squared rear end 26, to receive a crank handle (not shown) and at the front end means is provided to turn said shaft by the power of the vehicle engine as follows: The shaft 27 driven by the motor 28 is provided with a loose clutch element 29 controlled by a shift clutch element 30 controlled by any approved means, a shift collar 31 being conventionally indicated in Fig. 1. The driven clutch element 29 drives a pulley 29 over which a chain 31 runs to a pulley 32 on a short shaft 33 turning in bearings 3 1 on frame 13 and provided with a pinion 35 meshing with a pinion 36 rigid with the shaft 2 1. Thus, by throwing in the clutch element 29 the shaft 24 through the described drive connections will actuate the worm wheel 22, shaft 20, and pinion 19 to raise or lower the body 1 1 by raising or lowering the racks 18. I

In the raised position of the body it is adapted to discharge its load either longitudinally or laterally for which purpose a longitudinal chute 37 is provided beneath the bottom of the body and a lateral chute 38. The supporting means for said chutes include stirrup-like hangers 39, 40 adjacent the outer ends of said chutes and adapted to receive the inner ends of portable troughs or chutes (not shown), usually employed in directing the coal from a vehicle to a cellar vided for the or sidewalk. The portable chutes are accommodated when not in use on guide tracks or runways 41 of angle iron on the frame 13.

The body 14 is of hopper form and a dis charge outlet 42 in the bottom is common to purpose upper and lower guide bars 45, 46

at the respective sides of the gates and rigid with the body, the outer ends being suitably secured to the walls of the body and the adjacent ends having support on a central strip 47, the adjacent ends of the guide bars 46 being connected by bars 47 beneath the strip 47. Any suitable arrangement may be proguide elements 45, 46 as will be obvious.

The gates 43, 44 are adapted to be separately operated by separate levers 48 at the sides of the body 14, said levers being fulcrumed at their upper ends as at 49 on the exterior of the body and the lower ends having suitable handles 50. Between the ends of the levers, they are connected by links 51 with connecting rods 52, extending laterally inward beneath the bottom of the body, and secured at their inner ends as by bolts 53 to the gates 43, 44, respectively. Thus, it will be seen that coal may be directed through the common discharge outlet 42 to either chute '37, 38. Although said chutes are arranged at right angles to direct the coal longitudinally'or laterally in dis charging; the gates 43, 44 both move laterally and are controlled'by similar operating and guiding means. To look the levers 50 in position with the gates closed, removable pins 54' are passed therethrough and through a rigid bracket 55 on the body adjacent to the handle ends of the levers.

The numeral 56 indicates a handhold on the stirrup-shaped hanger 40, the handle being adapted to be grasped with the one hand while the. other operates the adjacent lever 48.

I would state in conclusion that while the illustrated example constitutes a practical embodiment of my invention, I do not limit myself strictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestly the same can be considerably varied without departure from the spirit of theinvention as definedin the appended claim.

Having thus described. my invention, I claim:

A vehicle of the class described including a body, a longitudinally disposed chute be neath the body, a laterally disposed chute beneath the body adjacent to the first chute, said body having a discharge outlet at the bottom thereof, common to both of said chutes, a transversely movable gate controlling communication between the first chute and said discharge outlet, a separate and independent transversely slidable gate controlling communication between said discharge outlet and the second-mentioned chute, vertically disposed levers fulcrumed on the body at the upper ends of said lever, at the exterior, at opposite sides thereof, handles on the levers at their lower ends laterally disposed connecting rods secured at their inner ends to said gates and extending transversely beneath the bottom of the body to the opposite sides of the body, and links outside of the body and connecting said rods at their outer ends with said levers of the levers.

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